Click to watch

Jason Forrest performs "Sperry and Foil"

Few artists have as much fun undermining Trademark Culture as Jason Forrest, whose 2004 plunderphonic classic The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash skewered Credence Clearwater Revival, the Talking Heads and the Who in a flurry of clicks, cuts and an unlikely punk rock tool: dance floor beats. Originally known as Donna Summer, Forrest rose to fame on the basis of his iconoclastic brand of breakcore culture jamming, only to find his illustrious career cut short when lawyers for the original disco diva caught up with him. Forrest responded with Unrelenting Songs…, the work of a sonic vandal in a musical culture defined by artistic idolatry. Calling his work “cock rock disco,” Forrest revels in paradox, challenging nostalgists to answer the provocations of sample culture while simultaneously bullying airhead disco with big rock riffs. More recently, his entirely original prog-rock dance floor symphonies and his collaboration with avant-gardist David Grubbs prove that scavenging the detritus of others is not his only gift, and that his most subversive effect might be his embrace of an unabashed aesthetic of fun. The similarly fearless Duran Duran Duran and Niagara Falls’ rising IDM star Wisp (Reid Dunn) round out the bill.

Wednesday, March 29 at 9pm. Soundlab, 110 Pearl St. (440-5907). $6.